Norman Evans

NORMAN EVANS d1962. English variety and radio performer from Lancashire who was discovered by fellow Rochdale entertainer Gracie Fields. He is best remembered for "Over the Garden Wall", in which he played Fanny Fairbottom, a toothless hatchet-faced Lancastrian housewife gossiping over a garden wall. He died in 1962 and was buried near Blackpool. The headstone of his grave is a low wall built from natural gritstone blocks. His epitaph (preceding birth and death dates) reads "Norman's last garden wall!"